High School Acceptance Letter

      For me having to apply to schools in San Francisco, has always been a problem. We have to go through what you call a Inter School District Transfer, since technically I live in Daly City, not San Francisco. I had applied to SOTA here in SF, Carmon in San Carlos, Terra Nova in the Pacifica, and Westmoor in Day City. When I opened my high school letter acceptance letter, it said I had been accepted into Terra Nova High School. Getting into this school was way easier and faster, since it's actually part of my district. The SOTA letter also came in, and it said I was being placed on a waiting list. It's alright, since 've decided to attend Terra Nova High School next year.

TV Advertisement Assignment

Cocoa Puffs Commercial, CLICK HERE

      An Advertisement, I would always find extremely funny would be the COCO FOR COCOA PUFFS commercial. That rooster jumping up and down crazily yelling COCO FOR COCOA PUFFS, COCO FOR COCOA PUFFS!!! was so hilarious... Anyways usually everytime my mom and I go grocery shopping, we can't leave out the COCO FOR COCOA PUFFS cereal out of our shopping list.

The Secret in their Eyes Film Review

        The past can turn into something so scandalous, so obscure that makes it difficult to forget, in "The Secret in their Eyes." This drama filled movie is a blend of mytery, and violence, along with tinge of comedy marked in some points in the film to create a better perspective. And what's a dramatic movie without a forbidden love story?

        This film takes place in present day Argentina, with occasional fashbacks to the 1970's where a former ivenstigator, Benjamin Ricardo Darin can't forget a specific case that treated with the rape and murder of a woman. Even if he had never met her, the memory of her corpse haunts his dreams. Her case was never solved, with the culprit still at bay. Years later, Benjamin decided to a write a story on this specific case, which also reunites him with his former colleague, Irene. This takes him back along the road of unforgotten memories tinged with regret of never being able to solve this case which had also taken great effect on hisown life.

   

       The lighting in this film is really quite extraordinary, wrapping main characters, like Irene or Benjamin, with a more solemn or subdued style, in order to reflect their moods, or the loss and regret they both feel. There are also many low light, sort of shadowy, foggy scenes that give a pretense of the mystery itself in the film. Even the clothes the charaters are made to wear, are very well chosen to reflect of this style of lighting.

Music in this movie, can bring tears to your eyes, or make you laugh, depending on what it's set out to do. It also wraps many scenes with its own unique melody, bringing you to share a scene's mood on a more personal basis.

      Overall, this movie can easily meat anyone's standard of a good dramatic film. I think it definately deserved to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2009.

Vampire Movie Assignment_2010

      During Summer Young Writer's & Film Camp, we were given the assignment to take footage others had filmed and edit it to make it our own. All of us campers came up with different styles and methods, and we all ended up with different projects, even if we all had started with the same footage. This film was created by me and two other fellow campers. Even is this was only meant as a warm up exercise, it a very fun experience.

Podcast 19 Assignment

     This week in our Media Arts Class, I have completed our latest podcast refering to the topic of Word Generation, a Strategic Education Research Partnership, created in order to increase students's lerning abilities. This is the 19th Week of the Word Generation Podcasts, so if you take a look at earlier podcasts, you will be able to see that as a class, we have improved and learned many skills such as learning how to create better animations, put more emotion in voiceovers, or even create our own music.

To see Podcast Week 19, Click here:

PSA Evaluation: Making Your Values Matter

    To see our PSA: Making Your Values Matter, click here

        Creating this PSA, gave me a chance to learn a different part of the media world. It gave me a chance to expand my knowledge into actually brainstorming and helping to write the script for a public service announcement. What was also very unique about this project, is that at the beginning, we all had different ideas for a PSA. But my teammates (Jessie, Stephanie) and I were able to combine them and create the theme, or main idea that our whole PSA is based on: Youth Empowerment: Making Your Values Matter. The San Francisco Film Society helpers, Kirthi, Ryan, and Masa were also a great help to all of our class. Even when we thought our film was done, they helped us point out many little things that needed to be corrected, before being able to finally export it.
 
        To me what most fun about creating this PSA was editing it. It gave all of us a chance to be creative and make this movie really ours, and enjoyable for others to watch.  However, what was most hard for me would have to be filming. Now that took a lot of focus and teamwork from all of us. I have to say that standing in front of a camera was not as easy as it seemed! For a minute I thought we would never be able to get all of our scenes filmed in time, since all of us just kept messing up! In the end, our PSA didn't quite follow our script. In fact, we had all decided to delete or change many scenes. Kirthi explained this happens very often in the media world, and these small alterations can actually help improve our film.

    Overall, I enjoyed being part of this project in creating a PSA. It was a wonderful, new experience working with Kirthi, Ryan, and Masa. I'm sure we wouldn't have been able to start or finish these PSAs without them. I hope all of our hard work is displayed during Friday's screening, and that they'll actually listen to all of our messages being promoted throughout all of our videos.

PSA Assignment

         For our PSA, Jessie, Stephanie, and I  will be doing a video about helping kids around the world by just donating a small amount of money. The message we're trying to send is that people don't need to make big, hard sacrifices in order to help starving children. Every time you want to buy something, or need something, think of those people, and spare them a dollar. The audience we are trying to reach are kids our age, ranging from 12-17 years old. Jessie is like the camera person. She will be taking the pictures, and helping to film the video. Stephanie will be working with the sound, so she'll be helping to choose our music. I will be editing the film in imovie. Lastly, Stephanie will be gathering all of the props, which most of them, we already have.